Over the past few weeks, I’ve received several emails from people planning family vacations that will include long-distance train rides. Invariably, they have questions about the on board accommodations. In...

I often hear from people planning their first overnight train ride who are unsure about their options. So today, here are the basics about the Superliner sleeping cars; tomorrow the...

For all the talk of adding new Amtrak routes and restoring others that were dropped over the past couple of decades, one unpleasant fact has always stood in the way:...